Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-22

Nav Tazx. Bspt. 2l.-The PaeiAs
! Railroad ooMmieoon resumed it, ex
amiaaiio1 this morning. kr. C0hez
| IN answer 70 requests for vouchers - q
/ large dishuEssmantB made By HEntiEQ.
Ton, alnfed THAI GuVeKmnT Sanford hnd
REFUSED 20 forward then. AZ the Oom
mission had already efeaa many I'M
poEtant doeuments Of the Company
which 4 had failed 70 re1zrn. he did
not pgepo9e % entEugt any more sloh
papers With the Commiasiou.
O. p. HnHtinRt0a was particularly
QueBlioned uiih refsrenee 30 these
VoucheKB whieh bsax hia signature and
appsar 10 Be for eleRal esFviossn and
Hoxponse aeeoant." Il al happened %
IouR ace that tho witness e1zld Dot re-
member exaaliy how tbs moneB VS.
nsed EsE any bat loaal and rEppor puE-
Mr. Andssson asked the witness Il be
thoughs if pfopox 20 uae this money Ia
ths paymant Of large fees 10 members
Of Congress ak the time bills Of great
peouuisry interaat TO the Oenirai Pa
eife Company we're pendin1l
TIE witness answered: II should hes
itata before paying snch fees. OF course,
when We wanted legal advice, and we 70
quired 10 kreqnently, we aiways wanted
Ine bes1.n Huntington said thai be-
tween 1871 and She present time there
had been many bills in Congress Affect
ing ths Central Pacific Company and Il
bad been necessary 10 collect . great
deal Of information regarding the road
for the information % members ef
Congress And this cost q great deal Of
meney, and u vas also necessary 10 re-
tain and employ men 70 approach the
Oonereasmen and explain 10 them jnst
hoW matters stood. One man could not
go all these Legislators an 10 yes neces-
sary for Rreak many. 10 aet. The Wit
ness said II Waa q lively time fos the
Osntral Pacific while Ton Secsfs pro-
ject vas before Congress. Tbs witness
wrote q great many letters 20 d. b. Col.
ton at this time. He understood they
had been stolen from q safe tn San
Francisco. Four agents Of Oolton's Cd.
ministration had tried 70 sell them 10
the witness but be hsd destined 70 bay.
The Commissions. produced copies
Of the letters With names omitted, being
enioined IN San Francisco By the Oen-
traI Pacific from producing names and
originals. The witness declined to al
the blank in enc letter, Ia which be
characterized q California Congress
man as 9 I'D hoR" In the other
Scott mie be had "switchedn certain
Senators 10 bis sids, bui khey could
have been switched baok.n This, he
explained. meant that they could be
broaQht back 20 the Union. Paeiiic side
By proper argument.
Mr.. Huntington was beginning to eei
excited and exclaimed, dramatically
II nsver wrote @ letter that I would not
be willing 10 have published 70 tbs
world and posted on every bulietin.
never used money TO influence Con-
arsssmen. Il would be strange II,
among four hundred, there should NOT
be some ooErupt men, though" Mr..
Huntington said be did not think Scott
ever paid or offered TO pay for votes oi
members Of Congress. As to his state
ment IN another letter, that the Com
mittee on Railroads In the House va
fixed BY 6oost, the witness said: II don'I
think that anybody was bought with
money!
Here the witness became angry with
the suggestions In AndeFson's inteFroQa-
tories that there vas something venaI h
the language Of his letters. and be pro
oeeded TO make an impassioned speech
He said: "a lot Of them skinned poll
tioians are always ready 20 place q
wrong construction on my language
and zee that it has even disturbed this
Commission"
Commissioner AndsEson-These LET.
ters ere produced TO ascertain II any oi
the money represented By these unex
e1afonA vnrsehnRa waa uaaN N nnFNhnRl
legislation.
Mr.. HantinRton-I can say emphatic
ally that IL never was.
Il vas then decided that be should
submit some scheme for settling the af-
fairs Of the road and the Government o
fridays session.